Huntsville gazette., 1887-04-02
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pig and we found some bread tickets
on the street. We are in clover, sure
Merico (Mo.) Ledger.
A girl was arrested in New York
for stealing the watch and jewelry OF
a friend, and the fact was developed
that she had pawned them to get
money to bury her mother.-M 7.
San.
"A Washington (Ga.) man recently
fired into covey of partridges that
were huddled up in bunch on the
ground and killed eleven of them, and
( as the twelfth bird rose he killed that
also Chicago Herald.
DIR. Mary Walker got among a
group of Texans near the Capitol at
Washington the other day, and was
highly disgusted when one of them
asked in an audible tone where "that
cowboy kid" came from.-N. Y.
Graphic.
A scientific journal states that "all
modern high explosives are now almost
universally exploded by the agency of
electricity" A Jersey City paper says
coal oil is still exploded by the agency
of the cook-stove and the hired girl,
which is an important exception.
A Connecticut jeweler has very
ingenious demagnetizing machine.
Watches which have been magnetized
by being placed in close proximity to
electric batteries can be restored to
their normal state in few seconds by
means Of this machine. ne.-Hartford Post.
A man who died near Springfield,
Mass, few days ago bequeathed his
horse, cat, COW and fowls to the Society
for the Prevention of Cruelty to AMI
mails, and also two thousand dollars,
stipulating that the society should take
good care of the animals until they
died.
The present cost of operating the
railways of this country by steam is
$502, 900, 900, but to transport the same
tonnage, using men and horses, would
cost $11, ,306, 100000. That is to say
return to old methods would render
commerce practically impossible.-Bos-
ton Herald.
IL don't mind giving up my neck
ties before they're half worn out" said
society young man, "because they
look pretty in crazy-quilts. But I'm
going to draw the line on my married
lady friends hereafter "Why?"
asked friend. 1.-The last lot of scarfs
| gave to Mrs. -- her husband has
been wearing ever since. Do you
blame ?'-Bufalo Courier
Miss Matte Smith, of West Lau-
rens, N. Y, was very i'll, and Mrs Ed
wards, who has reputation as faith
healer. was called to pray over her.
After the praying Mrs. Edwards said
that Miss Smith must 60 out for a ride.
The invalid's friends objected, but she
went, though suffering great pain.
When she returned she went back to
her bed, and not long afterward died.
--Bu6alo E1press.
e. B. Davis, while putting up tele-
phone wires in Detroit, seized work
ing wire and received a shock that
knocked him from the pole to an adj
joining roof. He was not harmed by
the fall, but found that the wire had
burned groove across the palm of his
hand clear to the bone. Not drop of
blood was drawn, and on the sides of
the groove the flesh was scared. The
hand gave him no pain and he was at
work next day.
Captain Porter says that the mock
ing-birds Of Dade County, Fla, do not
sing. He has bought some Leon
County songsters to learn the naughty
birds Of his section to sing. Another
strange thing about Dade County is
that there is not road in the county.
People there generally travel by water
or ride along the beach or through the
woods. The forest trees are all tropi-
cal and different from other sections OF
the State.-Atla,atd Constitution.
-Reunno Caulker, full-blooded,
jet-black African Prince, sailed recent
ly from New York for the west coast of
Africa, to there resume sway over such
Of his subjects as have not been carried
away into slavery by rival tribes and
Portuguese traders. With him went
young lady who became smitten with
Caulker's princely charms while he
was attending the Dayton (O) college.
The girls name was Ella Shaffer. and
when the Prince threw his throne and
heart at her feet she grasped at the
chance to become a Princess in her
own. right instanter. So they were
married. Cleveland Leader.
of the present destroyers of the
Indians, according to DR.. Washington
Matthews, the chief is consumption.
Census returns show that while the
death-rate among Europeans is 1774
per thousand, and that among Africans
is 1928, the rate among the Indians is
no less than 23.6; and that while among
the whites 166 deaths in the thousand
are from consumption, and among the
narr,.oas 126 there are 286 amOnr the